(Of course, in both cases, they are saying what Obama has said, but that's okay by the Obama Roolz.)

 People over "there" (the middle east) don't get fooled.   Americans in Iraq, the soldiers are white and black, they are Americans.  This is an American construct.  Condoleeza was AA.  Powell was AA, how did they do better with the people of the middle east?   Anyway, he is a Christian American, who did everything in his power to disavow being a Moslem in any way, he even runs away from his middle name.  

Someone remind Kerry that Muslims come from all races and backgrounds...

Maybe someone should ask John Kerry to comment on that--I mean, if he really wants to heal the world.

(more at the link)

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it. ... .." - Senator Barack Obama

"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it. ... .." - Senator Barack Obama

And then they accuse the Clinton campaign of making race an issue in this campaign.

So proof that we are moving past racism is ... Barack Obama!  What a coincidence!

it's funny, i've read quite a number of reviews of sen. obama's recent speech, many of them oohing and ahhing over the fact that he broached a subject (race) normally considered taboo in polite company. geraldine ferraro did exactly the same thing (and pointed out an unwelcome truth), and was roundly chastised for it. the hypocrisy is just utterly stunning to contemplate.

Of course, I'm always in favor of Obama's endorsees stumping for him.  It makes him lose.

It's Hillary.

What kind of people are we in this country??  Do you honestly beleive that anyone could be a Christian and sit in church for tweny years and listen to a pastor rave on about America and her short comings? This was the comment of Pat Buchanan made last night and so many pundits and also so called journalist who have saturated the media with less than three minutes of comments from Wright.  The Black church, our comfort in times of trouble, our refuge in times of agression, our only soucre of information during long dark periods in this country.  I heard Martin L. King express his views from the pulpit a long time ago and as unwelcomed by the white community of that day, did he lie??  No, of course not.  I heard Senators like Jesse Helms, and Gov. George Wallace and even Richard Nixon speak their minds on people and race in this country.  How funny is it that none of them were denounced or expected to be rejected by White or Black people or to stop going to the country clubs. I know the names of many overtly racist people who associate with a host of your current political figures and are they held to this rediculous standard?  No, I don't think so.  Exactly who does control things in America?  African Americans?  Blue collar Whites who work for hourly wages?  Hispanics at the low end of the economic spectrum?  No, I don't think so.  Regardless of our provacations, did we bomb the countries Pastor Wright said we bombed? Yes, I think we did.  His mistake was God D*** America!!!  Yes, big mistake although I have thought it on occasion.  George Bush is the only person I can say I've seen eating dinner with Bin Laddin and took millions of dollars of investment money from him for oil revenues in this country.  Yet, he was and still is not held to the same standard of scrutiny that Barack Obama has suffered.  The Democratic party can't seem to get out of its own way long enough to elect a smart, capable, man of integrity and character who could honestly bring something new to the political playing field.  The race is ours to lose and if we do, whatever happens in the next four years we deserve every bit of it.

But really, can't we do a bit better than this. Obama will be as [s]electable, even in 2008, as Kerry was last time. Hillary will have a hell of an uphill battle to be sure, but I think she can win. Obama, not so much. Especially if we see Obama, Kerry, and Teddy with arms held high together at the convention. That will be all she wrote. Then we can start the Hillary2012 campaign the next day. Or Edwards2012 (my original candidate).

Say it in skepticism, though, and you're a blackguard and a bigot, and may you, and your children, and your children's children, burn forever in the hottest flames of hell.

i see the light now.  when obama is elected the "religious divide" will be bridged, and the price of gasoline, groceries, and utilities will magically return to 1998 levels.  how could i have been so blind?

Still I don't see how that makes Obama as this messiah able to heal the rift within Islam or much less the growing rift between the West and Islam. The Dutch, the most tolerant society on Earth, are having increasing problems with Islam and it is leading to a radicalization of Dutch politics. Same in Spain. Immigration from the Islamic world is a huge problem. Kerry is assigning some kind of superpowers on Obama. It is unfair to Obama for starters and it is misleading the voters.

A week ago, I actually read an Obama supporter who said that we have to have Obama because he's black and he was born Muslim and when the Muslim terrorists see him as head of state they will quit picking on us!  My head reeled.